FujoFujo

by Sonia Leong (UK leading Manga artist)
 
This Yonkoma (4-panel) strip is published online every Tuesday and Friday. Follows a normal girl trying to live with a flat full of female otaku.

Click on the banner or follow this link: Fujo Fujo to start reading.

JYHS Library features in the Scottish Roundup

Scottish Roundup is a weekly blog that shares the highs of the Scottish blogging world. How did JYHS Library end up on it then? Well because Mrs. Wilson is this weeks editor.

Have a read of the article for yourself and find out more about politics and life related to Scotland.

Inappropriate Book Titles

I offer you 'The man who loved children'
Can anyone think of some others?

Alternative History

Alternative history works on the 'what if?' idea. A battle lost, a discovery never made...

Leading historians have written a few suggestions in:
'What if?: Military Historians Imagine What Might have Been' edited by Robert Cowley
'What might have been: Imaginary History from twelve leading historians' edited by Andrew Roberts
both these titles can be found at 909 in the non-fiction collection.

Alternatively many authors have taken it and done more than a chapter instead creating whole books or even worlds. For starters try:

The Truth is Dead edited by Margus Sedgwick
Collection of short stories looking at various times in history and what might have been.

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
Alternate UK history - King James III is on the throne and although it's only 1820 steam trains already exist.

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The Allies lost WWII - Nazi's control New York but the Japanese have California and the middle of the US is a neutral buffer zone between these two powers.

Fatherland by Robert Harris
1964 and Adolf Hitler is about to celebrate his 75th birthday.

Hitler's War by Harry Turtledove
What if the Second World War had started in 1938? What a difference a year makes.

Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois
What if the Cuban Missile Crisis had actually resulted in a atomic war?

The Radleys by Matt Haig


I really loved this. Vampire family keeps their true nature hidden from the kids with some serious consequences. It’s more of a family drama than a vampire story – it’s all about the relationships and secrets of the family but it is excellent. Haig also wrote ‘The Dead Father’s Club’ a Hamlet inspired tale that I enjoyed as well.

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